TLDR: Mount is building the AI insurance carrier, starting with liability coverage for deployed AI agents. As everyone moves AI Agents into production and gives them more responsibility, we help businesses insure and secure them.
Whenever responsibility shifts from human operators to autonomous systems, so too does the liability that accompanies it. The systems also introduce new risks: agentic software failures, prompt injection attacks, autonomous workflow errors, data leaks, and more.
Legacy insurance was not built for this. Existing policies are often silent, ambiguous, or exclude autonomous software, and traditional insurers lack the data and technical capability to assess deployed AI Systems.
Our first product, the Mount AI Liability Policy, is built for mid-market and enterprise companies deploying autonomous AI agents in real business processes. We scan and red-team AI deployments, quantify operational risk, help fix vulnerabilities, and insure the residual risk with purpose-built AI liability coverage.
Mount is best thought of as a highly automated version of today's commercial insurance carriers, which run on manual workflows, layers of intermediaries, and tens of thousands of employees. AI enables automation of underwriting, pricing, policy issuance, claims, fraud detection, customer support, and distribution. We believe that the best way to use this opportunity is to rebuild those processes from the ground up.
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John Bachmann
Founder at Mount (YC P26) | Mount insures companies against AI risks. I grew up in a family that's been in the insurance industry for four generations. At 18, I dropped out of high school and flew solo to Bangalore, where I spent four months building an engineering team I recruited and led, scaling the business to $400K in annual revenue.
Fabian
Studied Computer Science at ETH Zürich with a focus on machine learning. Previously worked at MESH, an ETH robotics spin-off. Also founded a web development company at age 16. Leads product, strategy, AI risk evaluation platform and underwriting model at Mount.
John
Founded Horizonn, an AI-first media company in Switzerland at age 18, scaling it to 400K in annual revenue. Drives operations and growth at Mount.
Fabian Amherd
Founder at Mount (YC P26) | Mount insures companies against AI risks. I studied Computer Science at ETH Zürich, focusing on machine learning. At MESH, an ETH robotics spin-off, he built and deployed custom CNNs for real-time object detection in industrial robotics. Before that, he founded and ran a web development company for 3.5 years, starting at age 16.
LinkedInJohn Bachmann
Founder at Mount (YC P26) | Mount insures companies against AI risks. I grew up in a family that's been in the insurance industry for four generations. At 18, I dropped out of high school and flew solo to Bangalore, where I spent four months building an engineering team I recruited and led, scaling the business to $400K in annual revenue.
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